“In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.” PeopleShouldMindEvilConvincedThings To DoRight ThingGermanyMurdererPolandAccomplicesHungary Author:James Comey
“We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.” PeopleActorsAccountsClintonAccessContactSecretaryHostileEmail Author:James Comey
“Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.” PeopleKindLongStatesGovernmentTogetherProcessChallengesUnitedUnited StatesInformationSourcePeriodsRemainsFolksIraqInterviewsSyriaRefugeeUnlikelyRobustState GovernmentLong Periods Of TimeUnited States GovernmentBiometrics Author:James Comey
“I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveInterestFoundersSkeptical Author:James Comey
“I don't know enough about the legislation , but I think the more information you can put in the hands of the people who are vetting, people who are going to be near children, the better.” PeopleThinkingChildrenEnough Author:James Comey
“We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.” PeopleCareSafetyPrivacy Author:James Comey
“Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.” PeopleWorldCommunicationGeniusInnovationBad People Author:James Comey
“It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to know that there are multiple oversight layers, including the FISA Court, congressional oversight, internal oversight within the FBI and intelligence community, that protects Americans from - under - their - their privacy rights while targeting terrorists and people who are trying to kill us.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifficultCommunityProtectTerroristPrivacyMultipleFbi Author:James Comey
“Sometimes the FBI is assigned to do background checks on people who are coming into government in the executive office of the president. Other times, not. A lot of times there are people who are arriving with clearances that already exist.” PeopleSometimesPresidentOfficeFbi Author:James Comey
